Proverbs 7:21

Her persuasive, flattering words finally lead him astray. Smooth speech overcomes the naive youth's resistance.

Cross-references · 11

• Prov 5:3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
• Prov 7:5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
• 2 Kgs 4:8One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
• Luke 24:29They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.
• Ps 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
• Prov 6:24to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
• Judg 16:15–17She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
• 2 Cor 5:14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• Acts 16:15When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us.
• Luke 14:23“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
• 1 Sam 28:23But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

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